Flight of the Surf Guitar Challenge!

"Flight of the Surf Guitar" by The Atlantics is probably my favorite surf tune to play. It's 2 mins and 40 seconds (or so) of fun and fury. It is just a really cool song and a great exercise for surf guitar playing.

So I would love to see everybody's version of this classic tune. It will be interesting to see the different tones, styles and guitars that everybody is using. All I ask is that everybody keep it positive when commenting on the efforts submitted here.

So alright.. I'll get it started. I'm playing an Eastwood Surfcaster thru a Fender Mustang III amp to a backing track.

Have fun everybody!

Ed

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EXCELLENT! I love your take on the bridge! I will have to come up with something....

EdRadakovitz wrote:

Let's have some fun ...

"Flight of the Surf Guitar" by The Atlantics is probably my favorite surf tune to play. It's 2 mins and 40 seconds (or so) of fun and fury. It is just a really cool song and a great exercise for surf guitar playing.

So I would love to see everybody's version of this classic tune. It will be interesting to see the different tones, styles and guitars that everybody is using. All I ask is that everybody keep it positive when commenting on the efforts submitted here.

So alright.. I'll get it started. I'm playing an Eastwood Surfcaster thru a Fender Mustang III amp to a backing track.

Well, I made a soundcloud account just to rise to this challenge and here's my version.

Mostly, I like it!
While your deviations create a totally different feel, you do hold on to the basic parts of the song.
For me,
I have always felt that the song was played way to fast originally. Actually, I feel that way about some fairly modern surf songs too.
To each their own.
Nice job!

...and the John Blair Band -with Alex Faide of Los Twang! Marvels on rhythm guitar, Lorenzo Valdambrini aka Surfer Joe on drums, and Frank Hughes of the Eliminator on bass - playing Flight of the Surf Guitar at the 2011 Surfer Joe fest: